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单词 choral
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Definition of choral in English:

choral

adjective ˈkɔːr(ə)lˈkɔrəl
  • 1Composed for or sung by a choir or chorus.

    a choral work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our last concert was a programme bursting with superb concert band, symphonic, jazz and choral sounds.
    • This Howells disc is one of the finest choral compilations of the composer's music I have heard for quite a while.
    • Although ultra-purists sing Bach's choral works one singer per part, Law does them with 140.
    • Why do composers of choral music write accompaniments for brass ensembles so loud that they overpower the choir?
    • The special advent choral concert will be conducted by Peter Frost and includes sacred and secular music from early and modern composers.
    • Classical western singing is not relegated to opera alone there is choral and gospel singing too.
    • The music flows along quite beautifully and the choral and solo singing parts are also very well done.
    • Tomorrow evening, the Colne Valley Male Voice Choir presents a choral and solo programme at St John's Church.
    • Westport Choral Society is a four part choir specialising in major choral pieces and extracts from some old and some modern musicals.
    • I was also singing and studying the great Flemish choral music of the Renaissance.
    • Contrast was provided by alternating choral chant with passages sung by soloists.
    • He has also composed several choral works, including African Sanctus.
    • Few would guess that the man who composed these two rarefied choral works also composed the works on the second CD.
    • Before joining the monastery, he studied music in Germany and released a CD of a choral work he had composed.
    • What is it about choral music sung in churches without accompaniment that is so powerful?
    • All three composed sacred music, choral and solo vocal works, and music for the theater.
    • The competition, launched in July 2005, was to compose a piece of choral music to new words written by the clergy of St Martin's.
    • On Saturday, Cantores Olicanae will present a concert of choral music at St Margaret's Church, Queen's Road.
    • It is in this kind of writing that she makes her most distinctive and individual mark as a composer of contemporary choral music.
    • The work stands in the best traditions of English choral composition but also incorporates Negro spirituals as the voice of the oppressed and the outsider.
    1. 1.1 Engaged in or concerned with singing.
      a choral scholar
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Peter is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at Ohio University.
      • Sauguet displayed an interest in music from an early age, becoming a choral scholar and studying the organ.
      • Stanzas can be sung by a soloist, choral group, or the whole assembly as required.
      • In 1955, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and choral conductor at the Teatro Colon, the city's opera house.
      • They came together last year on a purely voluntary basis to form a mixed choral choir under the direction of Marian Gaynor.
      • The King's Singers is a group which was formed more than 30 years ago by six choral scholars from King's College, Cambridge.
      • The refrain is easily learned by everyone and the leader part can be sung by a soloist or small choral group.
      • Because we sing in a choral group, we get to be friendly with Christians.
      • Most of this music demands a great choir and a great choral interpreter.
      • Bostridge conveys more the image of an Oxbridge choral scholar who has ventured out without his scarf than Schubert's traveller
      • He won a choral scholarship to Cambridge and took a degree in modern languages.
      • The part of the adult Saint Nicolas will be sung by Ed Lyon, a former choral scholar of the Abbey School Choir, who is on the cusp of a career as a soloist in oratorio and opera.
      • As soon as I was in high school, I could sing in a special chorus in addition to having my daily choral class.
      • In doing so I related this to Rubbra's increasing experience as a choral composer.
      • The company would sponsor choral groups, a concert band, and a symphony orchestra.
      • He is the pianist for the choral department at Bozeman High School and the Bozeman Symphonic Choir.
      • Bamberg is the furthest possible remove from the world of Nott's upbringing in Solihull, and then as a choral scholar at Cambridge.
      • A beautiful programme of unaccompanied hymns was sung by a choir of choral scholars selected from across the University.
      • You have a chorus, a voice chorus; you have singers who are part of a choral group, and soloists.
      • If Dennis wants to engage the San Jose choral community as part of his remarkable community outreach, Carmina Burana is the ticket.

Derivatives

  • chorally

  • adverb ˈkɔːrəliˈkɔrəli
    • The German term originally signified a plainchant melody sung chorally, but from the late 16th century its meaning was widened to include vernacular hymns.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Our other great highlight was the southern hemisphere premiere in 1999 of Szymanowski's chorally difficult Symphony No 3 of 1916 sung with the Christchurch Symphony.
      • In a lot of these songs the intro seems like a differently-arranged but melodically/chorally similar version of some other part of the song.
      • In addition, in Shared Reading, as Routman describes it, the students read chorally after the teacher has modeled fluent reading.
      • One of the key elements in English music is the use of the voice, both chorally and in the more intimate setting of song.

Origin

Late 16th century: from medieval Latin choralis, from Latin chorus (see chorus).

Rhymes

aboral, aural, floral, goral, oral
 
 

Definition of choral in US English:

choral

adjectiveˈkôrəlˈkɔrəl
  • 1Composed for or sung by a choir or chorus.

    a choral work
    choral singing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Before joining the monastery, he studied music in Germany and released a CD of a choral work he had composed.
    • Tomorrow evening, the Colne Valley Male Voice Choir presents a choral and solo programme at St John's Church.
    • Contrast was provided by alternating choral chant with passages sung by soloists.
    • Classical western singing is not relegated to opera alone there is choral and gospel singing too.
    • What is it about choral music sung in churches without accompaniment that is so powerful?
    • This Howells disc is one of the finest choral compilations of the composer's music I have heard for quite a while.
    • Few would guess that the man who composed these two rarefied choral works also composed the works on the second CD.
    • The special advent choral concert will be conducted by Peter Frost and includes sacred and secular music from early and modern composers.
    • Although ultra-purists sing Bach's choral works one singer per part, Law does them with 140.
    • Our last concert was a programme bursting with superb concert band, symphonic, jazz and choral sounds.
    • The music flows along quite beautifully and the choral and solo singing parts are also very well done.
    • Westport Choral Society is a four part choir specialising in major choral pieces and extracts from some old and some modern musicals.
    • Why do composers of choral music write accompaniments for brass ensembles so loud that they overpower the choir?
    • The work stands in the best traditions of English choral composition but also incorporates Negro spirituals as the voice of the oppressed and the outsider.
    • It is in this kind of writing that she makes her most distinctive and individual mark as a composer of contemporary choral music.
    • All three composed sacred music, choral and solo vocal works, and music for the theater.
    • On Saturday, Cantores Olicanae will present a concert of choral music at St Margaret's Church, Queen's Road.
    • He has also composed several choral works, including African Sanctus.
    • I was also singing and studying the great Flemish choral music of the Renaissance.
    • The competition, launched in July 2005, was to compose a piece of choral music to new words written by the clergy of St Martin's.
    1. 1.1 Engaged in or concerned with singing.
      a choral scholar
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Stanzas can be sung by a soloist, choral group, or the whole assembly as required.
      • If Dennis wants to engage the San Jose choral community as part of his remarkable community outreach, Carmina Burana is the ticket.
      • Because we sing in a choral group, we get to be friendly with Christians.
      • Bostridge conveys more the image of an Oxbridge choral scholar who has ventured out without his scarf than Schubert's traveller
      • A beautiful programme of unaccompanied hymns was sung by a choir of choral scholars selected from across the University.
      • Most of this music demands a great choir and a great choral interpreter.
      • In doing so I related this to Rubbra's increasing experience as a choral composer.
      • The part of the adult Saint Nicolas will be sung by Ed Lyon, a former choral scholar of the Abbey School Choir, who is on the cusp of a career as a soloist in oratorio and opera.
      • In 1955, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and choral conductor at the Teatro Colon, the city's opera house.
      • Sauguet displayed an interest in music from an early age, becoming a choral scholar and studying the organ.
      • They came together last year on a purely voluntary basis to form a mixed choral choir under the direction of Marian Gaynor.
      • The refrain is easily learned by everyone and the leader part can be sung by a soloist or small choral group.
      • You have a chorus, a voice chorus; you have singers who are part of a choral group, and soloists.
      • Bamberg is the furthest possible remove from the world of Nott's upbringing in Solihull, and then as a choral scholar at Cambridge.
      • As soon as I was in high school, I could sing in a special chorus in addition to having my daily choral class.
      • He is the pianist for the choral department at Bozeman High School and the Bozeman Symphonic Choir.
      • The King's Singers is a group which was formed more than 30 years ago by six choral scholars from King's College, Cambridge.
      • The company would sponsor choral groups, a concert band, and a symphony orchestra.
      • Peter is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at Ohio University.
      • He won a choral scholarship to Cambridge and took a degree in modern languages.

Origin

Late 16th century: from medieval Latin choralis, from Latin chorus (see chorus).

 
 
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